Quotes by American Authors - Page 2256

I will never intentionally ask you for anything that you aren’t willing to give. But if I do, you can always say no.” He lets that sink in for a moment. “But you won’t.
D.L. Hess
Failure is the secret to success because doing it wrong is apart of doing it right.
Alicia A. Jennings
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
Lemony Snicket
When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others’ heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.
Carla L. Rueckert
The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn’t.
Ann Marlowe
And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.
Mickey Leigh
We often learn to just earn dirty paper and forget to gain the wisdom needed to earn a life.
Debasish Mridha
They knew that no one heard, that bloodless people cannot be made to bleed. So they blew what everyone had heard before, they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening.
James Baldwin
After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.
Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.
Greg Iles
I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.
Jodi Meadows
There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations.
Orson Scott Card
The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.
Laurence Overmire
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.
Erich Maria Remarque
Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.
Suzanne Collins
There’s something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn’t be sexy.
Travis Luedke
An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience.
Eleanor Brownn
I don’t want fame, money, or duty. I want to close my eyes and see your loving beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.
Suzy Kassem
If you want the advice of an old man, don't be afraid of making mistakes. That's life. Just be sure you're making them for the right reason.
Lou Harper
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
o.henry
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.
Patricia Briggs
Minute by minute, then hour by hour, then day by day. Work is solace," he said, "friends are comfort. Life is for the living. You and I know that, even though we spend so much time with the dead - maybe because of that we know we have to live. Chale has been a great help to me.""That's good," she said, thinking of the priest she'd suggested Morris talk to. "You can ... you know, anytime.""Yes." His lips curved. "I know. You're work, and a friend, so have been both solace and comfort.
J D ROBB
The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
Doug Dillon
You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta
Charlaine Harris
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Love is the stimulation for the creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity.
Debasish Mridha
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
Don Roff
I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.
Mary Hughes
Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
Derek Thompson
The universe will bring people whatever they want…Let the magic happen. It’s always there. Abundance and love are always there. Believe in the highest good. There is a higher essence to everything. The realm you’re in has a heaviness that mutes energy. You can penetrate through it, no matter how dark and heavy. Sometimes it has nothing to do with karma. Just don’t forget to keep it open. Don’t get too bogged down…Prosperity can happen at any time. I want to give you everything that you need.-Kuan Yin
Hope Bradford
What do you want?I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.
Sara Farizan
Don't destroy Half-Blood while we're gone," was Chiron's parting instruction. Argus pointed two fingers at his eyes and then at us. This took a few minutes since he has one hundred eyes, but we got the message - be good, or else.
Rick Riordan
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
Dr. Seuss
With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time.
Harold Eugene Edgerton
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Dave Barry
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.
Jennifer Elisabeth
Valkyrie, I will get answers from you one way or another. Either through this painful exercise in futility, as you believe, or through a civilized conversation.""You call this civilized?" She strained against her cuffs, leaning in to whisper, "Psst, Chase. The sexual tension between us is grueling.
Kresley Cole
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
Dave Barry
What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.
Kiera Cass
We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
Kent Nerburn
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
Peter Straub
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
Kim McMillen
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Henry Beston
That made clear to me the continuum that stretches from minor social minor to violent silencing and violent death (and I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a whole rather than treating domestic violence separately from rape and murder and harrassment and intimidation, online at home and in the workplace and in the streets; seen together, the pattern is clear). Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
Rebecca Solnit
And as we round the bend toward Ivy Cottage, he tugs my braid just the way he always has ever since I was six, and then he reaches down and takes my hand.Maybe sometimes dreams really do come true.
Heather Vogel Frederick
Darwin says people like you need to die.” (Carrow)
Kresley Cole
No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.
Lydia Davis
You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the things is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?
Stephen Chbosky
What we do to others, we do to ourselves..
Bryant McGill
Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
James Gleick
No. You surpass us all." Beside me she looked colorless and frail. "You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.
Margaret Rogerson
I walk at night under a moonless sky. Only the terrain guides my steps, yet my footfall is as sure as if a dozen suns lit the way. I go to meet you under a leafless tree that never seems to grow or alter its shape. I am uncertain if it still lives or has learned to disguise its death. The same thought crosses my mind when I feel your cold fingers take my hand. It is not the tree I reflect
Richelle E. Goodrich
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
John K. Brown
It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.
R.C. Sproul
In your heart, create a world full of flowers and love.
Debasish Mridha
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
Kay Redfield Jamison